According to the Canadian National Press, Canadian Mounted Police nabbed Hassan, 31, on Wednesday in a bus as he was trying to cross the border from Buffalo, New York.

Bernadette Seajatan, 49, and her daughters, Sharon Yassim, 30, and Marlyn Hassan, 29, who was married to the suspect, were Tuesday found dead in the home they shared with their husbands and Yassim's two sons in New Jersey.

Reports are that investigators suspected that the crime was of a domestic nature and had gone to interview relatives of Hassan in the Pennsylvania suburb of Philadelphia where they found the vehicle he had driven from New Jersey.

Apparently, he then made his way to New York where he boarded the bus at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan.

Hassan was taken off the bus after authorities received an anonymous phone call that the man who had murdered the three women was headed for Toronto from New York, reports said.

He was turned over first to immigration officials, then to Police in Buffalo, where he appeared in New York state court.

Prosecutor Edward DeFazio was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying that Hassan agreed to be extradited to New Jersey yesterday to be formally charged.

Yassim's two sons, ages three and six, discovered the bloody bodies of their grandmother, aunt and mother, shortly after their grandfather, father and Hassan had left the house Tuesday morning, news reports said.

Hassan was unaccounted for and this led him to become the main suspect of the triple murder.

Relatives were reported as saying that the three couples had lived peacefully until several months ago when the Hassans began arguing about religion.

Maryln Hassan, a Hindu, who was a bank manager at Chase in Manhattan, was converting to Islam but not quickly for her husband, her father Baldeo Seajatan was reported as saying.